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DATELINE HOLLYWOOD: The party is over and the film is “in the can!”
Twentieth Century Fox hosted the “wrap party” for its production of
“Gleaming the Cube.” So...Gleaming the who??? How about a party that
includes the likes of Tony Hawk, Tommy G., Mike Vallely, Natas Kaupas,
Eric Dressen, Chris Black, Ted Ehr, Gator, Rodney Mullen, and Mr. Moun¬
tain, and Mr. McGill!!??!! As cameraman, skateboard coordinator and
second unit director, Stacy Peralta was also in charge of party refresh¬
ments.

“Gleaming” is a feature film due out of tinsel town in early summer, 1988 .
Directed by Graeme Clifford (“Frances" is one of his better known films)
this adventure drama is likely to change skating and the way skaters are
perceived by non-skaters. The film is not a skating movie, but skating is
an integral part of the story that involves a sixteen year-old Orange
County skater played by Christian Slater (who has been very busy with
several different roles including Francis Ford Coppola’s newest film).

Slater’s character has an adopted brother-a Vietnamese ‘boat person’
refugee--who is murdered, but it’s set up to look like a suicide. With little
initial help from the authorities, Slater’s character sets off to solve the
crime on his own, or, with a little help from his friends. This quest includes
some of the hottest skating you’ll ever see.

“There is amazing, absolutely amazing footage in the film,” claims Stacy.
“I got to survey Orange County in a helicopter scouting for pools that we
might be able to use. Hills. Different street situations that might work for
skating locations. And then we’d land and approach the people for their
permission.” This is distinct from the way the rest of us go skating.

“There are some downhill street-slide shots,” adds Stacy, “high speed
street-slides...these shots are just going to blow people away. And the
street style stuff! Oh, it’s just insanely good!”

continued on page 7...

Steve Saiz-

a 19-year old £
street skater from
Long Beach
rides a Lance
Mountain
deck with rat
bones.

The Bones Brigade always has their
eyes open for talented young skaters
who push themselves a little harder
than the rest. Pictured here are some
shredders who have practiced hard
and skate on the Powell amateur team.

Bucky Lasck-(above) a 14-year old
^rfrom Baltimore, Maryland rides a
* mini-Caballero withX-Bones.

Chet Thomas-(right) a 14-year old
from Huntington Beach prefers a mini
McGill with street bones.

is from Santa Ana, CA. Ray streetstyles
his way to fun on a ripper deck and
street bones.

Eric Sanderson-(Above)-Blast-
ing a mean backside at Fall brook
ramp. Eric is 16 and skates freestyle
and vert. He prefers a Mountain
hnarrl and X-Rnnps
uonny urimn -(right)-a 15-year
old vertical maniac from Jacksonville,
Florida cruising the Kona ramp on his
mini McGill.

Not Shown: Rex Kay, 12 years old,
from San Diego and Kevin Lambert,
16 years old, from Florida.

Gleaming The Cube cont.

The story, written by Michael Tolkein, didn’t include too much skating
initially. But as Clifford saw the effect of the skater’s abilities, he began to
include more and more skating in the film’s story. “He never realized,”
explains Stacy, “how into skating he would become. And he really has
captured an authentic feel of what skating is all about.”

Slater’s character is a skater. His brother is dead, and he enlists his
friends’ help in trying to piece together what has really happened. So they
skate around. Just imagine this: imagine having the abilities of Mike
McGill AND Rodney Mullen suddenly invade your body. You wake up
and hit the streets and voila! Well, that’s Slater’s skating ability. And he
skates over to his friend’s house, Tony Hawk, and then they skate down
to Tommy Guerrero’s and then...

And the skating is just amazing. McGill ends up doing some insane
things. He personally trashes a police car as he ramp jumps it and col¬
lides with the roof-rack light bar. There’s one.sequence where he seem¬
ingly is skating about 60 miles-per-hour while holding on to a car. He tail¬
gates a city bus at 35 mph.

The skater’s ability also provided
an interesting benefit to the film’s
crew. Like so many businesses,
Hollywood work is “hurry up to
wait” work. Except when your
wait time is filled with Dressen,
Mountain, Vallely and the others,
your wait time is filled with hot
continuous skating. “The crew’s
energy never slipped,” says
Stacy, “with that type of on the
set entertainment. Everybody
associated with the film has a
different image of skating now. I
think the film is really about the
nuts and bolts of skating. Skaters
are going to relate to it, the skating
isn’t just some gimmick, it’s really
about skating. Non-skaters are going
to see what skating is about, how
radical it is...the beauty of it. I’m really
looking forward to seeing the film.”

Stacy filming the action.

And so are we.

7

Mini

Ramps

From the beginning...MINI RAMPS!!!-always versatile, always popular, always
fun...Today, the use/need of them is a major consideration of the post-modern
skater. Cheap to build-less wood. Scraps can be used with new wood only being used
for the final layer. Plus, the size of the Ml Nl makes it possible for more skaters to have
them. Use them. They don’t take up all of your yard, aren’t as annoying to neighbors,
aren’t as loud and, above all, they’re easier to ride than bigger ramps.

Big ramps are an outgrowth of the 70’s vertical skatepark riding. In park days gone
by, a skater progressed from flat to increasingly more vertical terrain as abilities
allowed. So, in a sense, the MINI of today is related to the small bowls of yesteryear.
Many current vert ragers have used MINI ramps in their vertical learning process
(Remember, in learning to ride vert, the ability to "PUMP” is the most important thing
to master; the MINI is the perfect place to perfect the ‘pump.’)

MINI ramps are excellent adjuncts to street
skating environments, plus they’re a rad skat¬
ing environment on their own. Rumor has it that
future pro contests are planning to include
MINI ramp formats as an integral part of the
competition.

MINIS can be built in many sizes and heights.

Steve Cab had a 12-foot half which he cut down
to a 6-foot MINI. Stacy Peralta just built a 12-
foot wide, 4-foot high MINI for fun purposes.

Kevin Harris had a new MINI built at his skate-
park. His new style MINI has different levels and
hips and seems to be an ideal replacement for
the traditional snake runs and baby bowls of
skateparks.

MINI ramps appeal to skaters of all styles,
ages, and orientation. The skaters of today
advance to the future by rid ing the MINI. Watc h
forthe pro MINI ramp contest in '88. Get ready.

8

STEVE CABALLERO-Demonstrating the proper
way to use a mini-ramp. Axle-biting indy
pick at home, San Jose, CA.

JAPAN JOURNAL
by LANCE MOUNTAIN

DAY ONE:

Japan is known for its earthquakes. Well ourtrip starts with
one, in California! We arrive at airport to find that our flight
has been delayed until the next day. Steve, Adrian and I
return home and use the “STAY UP ALL NIGHT BEFORE
YOU FLY” method so we can sleep on the plane. Meanwhile
Kevin’s plane dumps its fuel in the ocean two hours into the
flight and returns.

DAY TWO:

“STAY UP ALL NIGHT BEFORE YOU FLY” method doesn't
work, except for Stevie, who sleeps anywhere, anytime. We
land at wrong airport. Bus takes us for 100 mile junket to
another airportwhere we board plane to fly to Osaka. Finally
arrive to meet Kevin and hoardes of Japanese skaters with
LOTS of cameras.

DAY THREE:

Yuji, our narrator and guide, takes us to first demo. 20-feet
wide, 9.5-feet high ramp. Great skating. Two jump ramp on
five-foot wide path is the Street-style and Free-style area. We
judge the contest. Japanese skaters go for anything and love hanging up and slamming
anyway possible. Ramp contest had 2 minute runs. Street runs had some problems with
TIGHT TRUCKS missing the ramps. Good prizes: Bikes, surfboards, shoes, boards, and
MONEY.

DAY FOUR:

Demo at amusement park. 9.5-feet wide by 11-feet high. A little slippery. Not too many
people but some rides were “Escape from Alcatrazlll” Had five minutes to go through

FOR YOUR WALL:

Bone Days Calendar - A
year of skate days for ’88.
Quite simply, we’re at a
loss for superlatives...the
ragingest record of time
ever assembled. You won’t
believe it.

NEW FOR YOUR BODY:

Bones Brigade Sweat¬
shirt - Keeps you warm
until the next tour as
Tommy G. airs it out
across your back.

STICKY STUFF:

New Flammable Bones
stickers...You’ve worn it,
now you can stick it.

New Skate Patrol Badge
stickers too !

11 ’ Air Shirt - Join in the
celebration of Caballero’s
Sweat Pants: New bat World Record!

design crawling up your
leg. Wear them with your
new 11’ Air Shirt for the
overall Cab effect.

Clocks - New, authorized
Tom Dooley hanging hard¬
ware, easier to install, es¬
pecially with the Bones

Days calendar nearby.

Ray Underhill

Just 25 years-old, Ray started
skating on the streets with
friends from junior high ten
years ago. Unlike most, he
lived in Tennessee, and
bought his first board from a
Ben Franklin “5 ‘n dime.” He
took the normal progression
through skating: road rashes,
building terrible ramps, and
making skate magazines his
solo source of support. To his
credit, he followed Powell-
Peralta’s growth ever since he
spotted the old photo of Ray
Bones gettin’ heat on a Powell
Quicksilver metal board. Not
too long ago he spent every
cent he had on boards, buying
one a month until he was spon¬
sored by TRACKER after a
Kona contest. Stacy gave Ray
a call to sponsor him just as
skating was growing strong in
the mid-west and along the
east coast. Ray’s skating is
quite different, picking up in¬
teresting tricks and going
“Fakie” for quite some time
now.

Job: “I wish I didn’t have to
have one!” He color separates
forT.W.S. and strips photos for
magazines and ads. Takes up
too much of his skating time.
Hopingtoturn pro next season
and do more in the promotion
area, Ray looks forward to
having a Beamer set-up, com-
plete with original Bones
signed by Stacy (’’Skate for
Life”).

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Kevin Harris - carving a stylish one wheel nose wheelie

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